 | | Book | | "'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i...i.. is deJicated tu the people of Mexico and to the three people who directly affected me and this project |  | | Book | | K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits...District ........... Nacozari District ...... Moctezuma District ... Hermosillo District ... Alamos District...Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District.. | | | Book | | anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of Dana’s Tratado de Mineralogia...would like to thank the director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum who allowed me to travel extensively |  | Clark, A. M., Smith, D. A., Symes, R. F., Tandy, P. C., Hart, A. D. (1995) Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens in the Natural History Museum, London - With an appendix listing mineral species and varieties originally described from the British Isles. Natural History Museum, London. | Book | | the description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright...277. Agardite (Cotype) BM 1978,00024 Bou Skour mine, Bou Azzer, Jbel Sarho, Morocco J.E. Dietrich, M...199. Apachite (Cotype) BM 1980, 00532 Christmas Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA F.P. Cesbron & S.A. Williams |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Scovil M ining began in Mexico more than four hundred years ago! As a result, Mexico has been a prolific...1960s. European museums received specimens from Mexico as early as the late sixteenth century, but it...American museums began to acquire specimens from Mexico. The Harvard collection is probably typical of...no strong connection to Mexico and its mines. A precious opal from the Iris mine in Queretaro (fig. 1)...offered as a general introduction to the minerals of Mexico, the theme of the 1999 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show |  | | Catalog/List | | pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...Zn Te Oxide pink masses in 5mm matrix (Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) £4.50 497 TELLURITE Te 0/2 good yellow...crusts and coatings on matrix.(La Bambolla, Moctezuma Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 H ins possible micros £3 499 MACKAYITE |  | | Catalog/List | | pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...waxy coatings and conglomerate cement. (Moctezuma Sonora Mexico) 14 x 54 ins £4 499 MACKAYITE Fe TeO OH...sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins |  | | Catalog/List | | Back Cover COVER PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal...Fl/R. MM LB. ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc. Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Green-gray to red-brown...crystalled on limonite, rich ................. 1.50 . 25 Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. White-to-pale yellow...crystal FI. 1. 00 groups on limonite ................ Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Brilliant lime-yellow... Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite CUPROADAMITE Mexico Durango, Mapimi |  | | Catalog/List | | Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5 498 ZEMANNITE...minute brown micros in cavity on J4 ins matrix . (Moctezuma f,.;;. ')• £5 ' (1 nice micro xl bn rock £2.50) |  | | Journal (issue) | | December 2000 . '. ····:•. ·•~::.·: ::•. ✓. New Mexico News Ramon S. De Mark 421 East Ridge Street, Apt...discoveries in New Mexico minerals were revealed at this year' s (November) New Mexico Mineral Symposium...hosted by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and organized by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines...Simmons of Sandia Park, New Mexico i the acting caretaker of the San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along...Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing |  | | Catalog/List | | Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn...Rich pinkish fine grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr |  | | Journal (issue) | | particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...employed as forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)... Figure 20. An engraving of the School of Mines in Mexico City, opened in 1795, from Calderon de la Barca |  | | Book (edition) | | a bolcite crystal. Boleo, Baja Califomia Sur, Mexico. Drawing by R. Peter Richards. Preface As I writc...TUFAN Uzbelcskii Geologicheskii Z/111mal VGZ de Mexico, fnslitulo de Geologia Boletin UNAMIGB Universidad...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...104(3). 326-328 □ Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza...Artrocitc, Ivigtul cryolitc deposit. Ivittuut municipality. southwest Wi tgreenl Greenland. 73. 1492, ZK |  | | Catalog/List | | down one side small 2x3 inch (Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mexico) £25 BERYL translucent colourless, faintly...CHALCANTHITE rich blue mass on lx2 matrix (Majuba Mine, Nevada USA) £6 STRONTIANITE yellowish. strongely...crystalline areas in white Barytes. (Whitesmith mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland) lxl £5 lx2 £10...5mm brown crystals over 2x4 inch surface hardshell Mine, Santa Cruz County Arizona USA £ I 2 GYPSUM variety...chalcocite) on matrix with dark grey Pyargyrite Uchuchaqua Mine, Peru £ 10 b) with 3mm crystal on lxl inch £5 FLUORITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | blue-fluorescing fluorite from the Blan chard mine in New Mexico. Dave Shannon had a large in ventory of...powellite with blue-fluorescing scheelite from the Riley mine in Nevada. Thomas Bee of Topaz Mineral E x  ploration...orange-fluorescing paralstonite from the Minerva mine, Hardin County, Illinois. A s in past years, T o...and Refin ing had willemite with calcite from Moctezuma Canyon, Arizona, a locality not heard from in...from Franklin, New Jersey. Among minerals from Mexico were large cubes of redviolet fluorite that fluoresced |  | | Book | | ............................................21 Mexico .................................................uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...was about 270 tU. In Argentina the Sierra Pintada mine had been in standby status since 1999 and was expected...recovered from mine rehabilitation activities; small amounts were likewise recovered during mine remediation |  | | Catalog/List | | cm - 10 x 10 cm ... $17.50 (59.4 ml) bottles. Mexico (2) Trinidad (offshore) (1) Thailand (1) Peru (2).... .. $62.50 KURANAKHITE, PbMnTeO. , Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Very dark reddish brown kuranakhite sta...Fe. Pb,(Te0,) (Te0.) (OH),o • 8H,0, Moctezuma , Sonora , Mexico. Very t iny (1 mm) patch of red -brown...9 cm - 9 x 12 cm ... $15.00 AgCI , Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill , New South Wales. 10 x 5 x 4 cm matrix...MALACHITE, . . . $120.00 AESCHYNITE-Y Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Zaire. •82834 (a) Excellent green |  | | Catalog/List | | 78-79 79 79 79 VANADINITE specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES...CATALOGUE. 2 ADAl\llITE A basic arsenate of zinc. Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina O juela. �en-gray to red-brown...crystalled on limonite, rich . . .. .... . . ..... . . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. White-to-pale yellow...radial groups . .... .. . CUPROADAMITE ( ! I I Mexico Durango. Mapimi, mina Ojuela. 1, �e blue to steel-blue...50 ADAM1TE from mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Lime-yellow orthrhom bic- xls on limonitic smithsonite |  | | Book | | K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=...*21120, Mon. Vitreous colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D( |  | | | | agates Sources of agates Europe Britain USA Canada Mexico South America Africa Asia Australia 108 111...thunder eggs from Oregon derive their name from the mine that produces them. Ardownie Quarry agates derive...royal purple Aztec agate from Chihuahua in northern Mexico. A recent addition to this list is Ocean Jasper®...trade name may be found in another mine a short distance away from the mine that produces the agate with the...named for Agua Nueva Ranch, in northern Chihuahua, Mexico. They are usually mined from relatively unweathered |  | | Book | | Europe 52 Britain 58 USA 76 Canada 108 Mexico 111 South America 122 Africa 131 Asia 138...thunder eggs from Oregon derive their name from the mine that produces them . Ardownie Quarry agates derive...royal purple Aztec agate from Chihuahua in northern Mexico. A recent addition to this list is Ocean Jasper®...name may be found in another mine a short distance away from t he mine that produces the agate with the...named for Agua Nueva Ranch. in northern Chihuahua. Mexico. They are usually mined from relatively unweathered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Anthophyllite, asbestiform, morphology and alteration, 77 Aragonite, atomic arrangements on twin boundaries, 265 Ardaite...banded iron,formation assemblage, 127 Cuzticite, Mexico, new mineral, 257 DAWSON, J. B., see MASON, R....EVANS, H. T., JR., see MILTON, C., 351 Eztlite, Mexico, new mineral, 257 FARROW, C. M., HERRIOT, A., and..., see HARDING, R. R., 445 Mertieite, 371 MEXICO, Moctezuma, cuzticite and eztlite, 257 Mica, Spain, chromian... Rock and Mineral Analysis, 404 WALES, Aberllyn mine, namuwite, 51 MITCHELL, A. G. H., and GARSON, M |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 54 K. Nassau Willemite From the Andover Iron Mine, Andover, New Jersey..............................$6.00 per year in the United States, Canada and Mexico. All other countries, $7.00 per year. Copy right...Md. EM M ONSITE from the M octezum a mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, M exico. Strange hair-like crystals described...to 0.5x0.5 in. $200.00 METASTRENGITE. Bull M oose Mine, Custer, South D akota (SDSM&T M u seum Specimen)...Barbosalite. $9.50 - $25.00 PYROMORPHITE. Hercules Mine, Burke, Idaho. (Single pocket, found 1966). G reen |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY PRELIMINARY DEPOSIT-TYPE MAP OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO By Kenneth R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey...Figure 4. of Mineral Deposits in Northwestern Mexico Los Gavilanes Tungsten District El Antimonio District... Preliminary Deposit-Type Map of Northwestern Mexico Kenneth R. Leonard Introduction The following...economic data on mineral deposits and occurrences in Sonora, North Baja California, South Baja California and...and the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico. The area is important for the evaluation or mineral deposits |  | | Catalog/List | | ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay, Scarborough...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)...217 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia 1129 ■ALMANDINE Brnstad iron Mine near Arendnl ,Norway Pure...Bcnallt Minc,Llcyn. Wales 1036 ALSTONITE Fnllowlielcl Mine, Northumberland White masses in malrix wilh micro |
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